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>Ambient sounds to wash away distraction
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Why do Baby Boomers seem to have no taste for movies before their time? Not even before their time, but before their 20s or even 30s. In my personal life I've never seen one bother with any movie from before 1965, or even before 1970 for a lot of them, and they all speak of old movies from before then with a tone of total contempt. They grew up with old cowboy movies and seeing John Wayne, but as adults seem to have zero nostalgia for those films.

Contrast that with Millennials, and even older zoomers, who grew up watching 80s movies, and remember them fondly and still soyface over them hard. 1980 is as far away from the present as 1935 is to 1980.

Was stuff like Casablanca and Little Shop Around the Corner playing on TV all the time in the 1980s? It just seemed like the late 1960s was a hard cultural reset and for that generation, they put away their childhood to a degree Millennials never did, to a point where they don't even venture into that territory at all for nostalgia.

Like I'm sure some of it is young people are peter pan syndrome man-children who can't move on, but at the other end it's uncanny that all the fondness boomers have for culture comes from their early adult life instead of childhood.

FUCKING NORMALFAGS GET THE FUCK OFF MY BOARD

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Until recently, surveillance functioned much like a modern panopticon, creating the illusion of constant observation. But with AI, we’re fast approaching a reality where it will be possible to genuinely monitor everyone, all the time.

It will become possible to instantly identify 'bad' behavior, and in some cases, even raise suspicion before it occurs. I use 'bad' in quotation marks because its definition is entirely shaped by those in power. Under the wrong circumstances, what’s considered 'bad' could be a personal opinion—or even an entire ethnicity.

Social media already allows a small group of powerful oligarchs to shape what people see—and by extension, what they believe. While propaganda has always existed, social media takes it to a new level, making it harder to recognize the source. Even worse, it's personalized, creating isolated groups with entirely different sets of information and viewpoints.

With the rise of AI, however, this influence will only grow. Not only will algorithms become more advanced in how they rank and recommend content, but they’ll also be able to generate fake content or messages, passing them off as organic.

I can’t predict the future, but I’d bet that the majority of people won’t even notice this shift. Most are tech-illiterate,and tech companies dominate the flow of information, which means any discussions about this will be limited and hard to find. It won’t be a secret, per se, but discussions about it will be few and far between. When those discussions do exist, they’ll likely be watered down to avoid sounding paranoid or extreme.

How does this make you feel emotionally? How would you react to it? The implications of this technology really bother me, but I know bringing it up in real life would likely make me seem paranoid, so I just keep it to myself.

Any wizzies playing on the stock market? There is currently a pretty big crisis because of Trump's tariffs. Might be a good time to get into the game when everyone is panic selling. I bought 100$ worth of s&p 500 etf today. I am prepared for it's value to get even lower so I am not going all in yet.

I'm 29 and after
5 years of addiction I'm gonna run out of Xanax that I take 30mg per day. Withdrawal symptoms include: grand mal seizures, psychosis, heart attack, stroke, inability to sleep, extreme anxiety, etc.
Is it best to lie your neck on the tracks, jump in front, stand, sit, lie all the way through instead of just leaving your head on. Use a faster in person train or freight train type? I won't do it at a station that's where trains stop. I know a spot near my house it's completely open free access to train tracks. Last one leaves at 11PM.

I suffer from social anxiety IRL but I also feel little need to socialize.

I've always had 0 friends on Steam. Never been on Discord.
I always avoid joining guilds in MMOs. I turn down friend requests in other games. I have no online friends/contacts.

The only downside is that I am missing out on multiplayer games that require team coordination but I just can't stomach having to speak on a mic.

If you had the power to broadcast sound directly into everyone's minds, everyone in the world simultaneously, what would it be? A message? In what language? A series of beeps and boops? Music?
You can do it as many times as you want, whenever you want. People hear it no matter what - be they deaf, sleeping, even if they have their head up their ass.
What would you broadcast?

What other superpower would you like to have the most?

>Hit tiny buttons with engravings in them
>Tiny buttons attached to magic box
>Through the power of Crystals with intricate patterns on them no one can fully explain people who i can't see or hear reply

You people seriously believe this?

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I think I need to have an "Aryan arc" or what you might call an "Aryan phase"